… and I almost cut his head. As the image was a bit tilted, I had to rescue the upper left corner by cloning a bit of wall and window parts. A narrow escape…
The observer in the window is like the Greek chorus who observes and comments on the scene below. Why would people choose to eat at McD in a country that added so much to the culinary arts? Your scene is an Italian tragedy.
Jeff, the Italian youth is probably as (not) reasonable as everywhere else – the ‘in’ things count, and too much deliberation is not in that category. So they follow fashion… and don’t realize what losses their culture suffers. But as I said: this is not specific Italian. Here at least it allows a picture with some depth.
Markus, you are correct about this scene allowing you to compose a strong photo. In fact it is a wonderful photo. American collage student also eat at McDonalds, but then they don’t have the strong food traditions of Italy. The McD trend is world wide, so I shouldn’t be surprised to see it in Turin. If trends continue the best Italian food may be found in Italian neighborhoods of New York and Chicago.
Jeff, this is just city life: if you go to the Italian countryside (preferably to non-tourist areas) many parts of daily life culture are still intact, with all advantages and drawbacks of course. But the food – often nearly perfect.
The guy at the window totally makes this photo.
… and I almost cut his head. As the image was a bit tilted, I had to rescue the upper left corner by cloning a bit of wall and window parts. A narrow escape…
The observer in the window is like the Greek chorus who observes and comments on the scene below. Why would people choose to eat at McD in a country that added so much to the culinary arts? Your scene is an Italian tragedy.
Jeff, the Italian youth is probably as (not) reasonable as everywhere else – the ‘in’ things count, and too much deliberation is not in that category. So they follow fashion… and don’t realize what losses their culture suffers. But as I said: this is not specific Italian. Here at least it allows a picture with some depth.
Markus, you are correct about this scene allowing you to compose a strong photo. In fact it is a wonderful photo. American collage student also eat at McDonalds, but then they don’t have the strong food traditions of Italy. The McD trend is world wide, so I shouldn’t be surprised to see it in Turin. If trends continue the best Italian food may be found in Italian neighborhoods of New York and Chicago.
Jeff, this is just city life: if you go to the Italian countryside (preferably to non-tourist areas) many parts of daily life culture are still intact, with all advantages and drawbacks of course. But the food – often nearly perfect.
Funny, all I see here are the street barricades… strong image